ABSTRACT
Most postmodern writers such as Foucault or Lyotard would cringe at the prospect of the word ‘prescription’ as a description of their own strategies of resistance or social theory. To do so would potentially re-create other systems of distorted power. The real alternatives should ideally emerge from local, micro-political processes. Baudrillard would, of course, reject it outright as hopeless. But all offer some kind of counter-strategy against either the ‘insidious’ effects of modernity, the naïve and dated analysis of Marxism or the right-wing embrace of individualism. Throughout these strategies, some common themes emerge.
